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100 Kip
| Issuer | Banque Nationale du Laos |
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| Year | 1957-1962 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ໑໐໐ ທະນາຄານແຫ່ງຊາດລາວ ຜູ້ອໍານວຍການ Le Gouverneur ຜູ້ກວດກາຜູ້ນຶ່ງ Un Censeur ຮ້ອຍກິບ ຜູ້ໃດປອມແປງທະນະບັດຈະໄດ້ຣັບໂທດຕາມກົດໝາຍ (Translation: 100 National Bank of Laos Governor Inspector one hundred Kip Those who fake paper money will be punished by the law) |
| Reverse description | At left, a vignette of a woman in traditional Lao costume carrying a bowl of roses, a figure identified as Mrs. Kongsy Thammavongsa as painted by Marc Leguay from a photograph by Maurice Bouton, representing the Pee-mai Lao New Year festival. At centre and right, a detailed architectural vignette of Haw Phra Kaew in Vientiane, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, set against a background of a flowering tree. French-language inscriptions appear throughout the design. |
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The Banque Nationale du Laos was established in 1955, just two years after the country gained full independence from France under the Geneva Accords — and French institutional influence didn't evaporate overnight. The Banque de France printed this series, and Marc Leguay, a French artist closely associated with colonial and post-colonial Indochinese currency design, provided the artwork. The arrangement was less a partnership than a continuation of existing infrastructure under a new flag.
P#6 carried a date range across five years of issue, meaning examples exist with meaningfully different signatures reflecting ministerial turnover during an unusually turbulent period in Lao political history — coalition governments collapsed and reformed repeatedly between 1957 and 1962.